I would like to add the consideration that what λόγος (logos; the Word, reason) was in our culture (which is based on Greco-Christian thinking), the FODDIK (eternal, sacred fire, with its LOGHA; flames) seems to have been for the Fryans (as desribed in the OLB).
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Posted by Abramelin 23 October 2012 - 05:23 PM

I had to think of another thing: the Celtic god LUG.

The etymology of Lugdunum is a latinization of the
Gaulish place name Lugodunon. Gaulish was the predominant language of
the region when conquered by the Romans. While dunon means hill fort,
the source of Lug is uncertain. The most commonly offered meaning is the
Celtic god named Lug, whose messenger was the crow (lugus), and who was
associated with the cock (rooster), ultimately to become the symbol of
France. Most references to Mercurius in Gaul really refer to Lug, as he was the Celtic god that the Romans considered to be Mercury
(see interpretatio graeca for more about this practice). Lug was
popular in Ireland and Britain, but there is no evidence of his cult or
worship in Lugdunum, except for the apparent use of crows as an early
symbol of the city. An alternative derivation is that lug refers to the Celtic word for light (a cognate of Latin lux and English light).

The exact etymology of Lugus is unknown and contested.
The Proto-Celtic root of the name, *lug-, is generally believed to have
been derived from one of several different Proto-Indo-European roots,
such as *leug- "black", *leuǵ- "to break",[4] and *leugʰ- "to swear an
oath", It was once thought that the root may be derived from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- "to shine",
but there are difficulties with this etymology and few modern scholars
accept it as being possible (notably because Proto-Indo-European *-k-
never produced Proto-Celtic *-g-).

Nay even in the life of the same individual there is succession and not absolute unity:
a man is called the same,
and yet in the short interval which elapses between youth and age,
and in which every animal is said to have life and identity,
he is undergoing a perpetual process of loss and reparation—
hair, flesh, bones, blood, and the whole body are always changing.
Which is true not only of the body, but also of the soul,
whose habits, tempers, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, fears,
never remain the same in any one of us,
but are always coming and going;
and equally true of knowledge, and what is still more surprising to us mortals,
not only do the sciences in general spring up and decay,
so that in respect of them we are never the same;
but each of them individually experiences a like change.

but whereas his life is continually progressing,
nothing can remain stationary,
therefore all created things change their locality,
their form, and their thoughts.
So neither the earth nor any other created object can say,
I am; but rather, I was.
So no man can say, I think; but rather, I thought.
The boy is greater and different from the child;
he has different desires, inclinations, and thoughts.
The man and father feels and thinks differently from the boy,
the old man just the same. Everybody knows that.
Besides, everybody knows and must acknowledge that he is now changing,
that he changes every minute even while he says, I am,
and that his thoughts change even while he says, I think.

Improvised translation "Now that we are being facetious, this is a good opportunity to theologically explore the concept of the 'hoax'. Perhaps the world is a cosmic joke of an evil demon, and all theologians took it seriously. The Bible and the Koran would be a kind of hoaxes just to mock our human credulity. This would explain why they contain so much nonsense. Then my hoax is a tribute to our creator!"

06 October 2012

There has been a long period of wars, diseases, migrations and natural disasters
all over the planet, libraries were destroyed, the internet was lost
through cyber attacks, major solar flairs and other unknown causes.
Books from secret private collections have fallen apart or were used as fuel
for people to warm themselves or to cook on. Most people could no
longer read them anyway, since for a few hundred years education was no
priority. Also, because of a dogmatic ideological system that has ruled
for several centuries, it was forbidden to own information carriers from
before 2500 CE. Many other dreadful things have happened as well that I
will not describe.

But now there is relative peace again and a Dutch text fragment from +/- 1900 CE is found. It contains the following expression:

"Ledigheid is des duivels oorkussen"
(proverb: "the devil finds work for idle hands", literally: "idleness is the devil's ear-pillow")

A researcher has a rare dictionary from the year 2400 CE. He starts translating and interpreting.

He can not find the word "ledigheid" (which even in 2000 CE was old
fashioned, rarely used Dutch for idleness). But he does find
"lenigheid", which means limberness. So he assumes a typing error and
that limberness was meant.

"Is" is easy, but "des duivels" may not be recognized as a genitive case. In that case it may be misread as plural "the devils".

Since "oorkussen" is not in his dictionary, but "oor" and "kussen" are,
he assumes that a space was missing. "Oor" means "ear" and "kussen" can
mean the verb "to kiss" or the noun "pillow". "Oorkussen" for pillow
already was out of use in 2000 CE. So he decides for "to kiss ear" or
"earkissing".

"Limberness is the devils earkissing" or "limberness is to kiss ear (of/by?) the devils".

It does not make sense to him but, since he does not like to admit that he does not know, he decides to interpret it as:

"One needs to be flexible to kiss the ears of devils."

He concludes that it must be a joke.

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This is how some fragments of the OLB were translated by Ottema in 1872,
although he did not draw the conclusion that the text had to be a joke.

That is what Jensma did, who made some things even worse in 2006 with (subsidized and "scientifically sound"!) translations like:

Tradition tells us that "the Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota" (wiki: yodh).

Yet, neither the Phoenician, nor the Hebrew, the Aramaic, the Syriac or the Arabic version look anything like it.

Wiki:In modern Hebrew, the phrase "tip of the Yud" refers to a small and insignificant thing, and someone who "worries about the tip of a Yud" is someone who is picky and meticulous about small details.

But the Hebrew Yud does not have a tip, like our i does!

There is a Dutch expression "de puntjes op de i zetten" (to add the dots to the i's = to add a finishing touch or to correct details).

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According to the controversial
Bock Saga (I know that it is not officially accepted to be an authentic
oral tradition), the letter i originally referred to penis and sperm.

In OLB "od" also has something to do with fertility (or the origin of life), as it made the 3 first mothers pregnant.

01 October 2012

The Greek letter K is named Kappa.
It is thought to have been derived from the Phoenician letter Kaph:
The word Kaph "is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip)".

In Dutch, the verb "kappen" means to chop (wood).
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Related is the word "inkeping" (notch).

Also related the heraldic term "keper" (chevron).

K looks more like a notch or chevron, than like a hand.

Earlier I have argued that the Greek word Delta (used for their letter
D) can be explained better through Oldfrisian than by the Greek
language.

See D is for del-ta (in Westfriesland a "delte" still means a piece of low lying land (laagte).

Two Greek letters-names that have a more plausible explanation through the Dutch/ Frisian language, than through Greek.

suche / zoek / soek / sök / søk / søg / seek/ sykje

F R Y A ~ S K É D N I S E

the early speech of our fore-fathers

"The pure Friesic and easy wording of the Oera Linda Book must be most welcome to students of English and Saxon, as a widening of the now too narrow ground of the early speech of our fore-fathers." Wm. Barnes. Macmillan's Magazine,April 1877, p. 465.

Video Studies

Cornelis Over de Linden (1811-1874) Den Helder

Eelco Verwijs (1830-1880)

first scholar who studied the manuscript and confirmed its authenticity (1867) - later he withdrew this conclusion, probably to save his career

Jan Ottema (1804-1879) Leeuwarden

first translator and publisher of the 'Oera Linda Bok' (1872 & 1876)

the oldest production of European literature

"We may thus accept that we possess in this manuscript, of which the first part was composed in the sixth century before our era, the oldest production, after Homer and Hesiod, of European literature. And here we find in our fatherland a very ancient people in possession of development, civilisation, industry, navigation, commerce, literature, and pure elevated ideas of religion, whose existence we had never even conjectured."Dr. J.G. Ottema, 1871 (translation Sandbach)